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Crops grown in the service area include corn, beans, sugar beets, wheat, barley, sunflowers, alfalfa <br />and grass hay. An approximate division of crops and planted acreage is as follows. This information <br />was determined based on Weld County averages taken from the Colorado Agricultural Statistics for <br />2005. <br />TABLE 1 <br />CROP SUMMARY <br />Crop Type No. of Acres Average Yield/Acre Price Total <br />Corn 5,162 180 bu $ 3.25 $ 3,019,770 <br />Dry Beans 975 30 bu $ 22.00 $ 643,500 <br />Sugar Beets 2,000 25.3 tons $ 40.00 $ 2,024,000 <br />Wheat 11,580 70 bu $ 4.35 $ 3,526,110 <br />Alfalfa Hay 7,665 6.0 bu $ 130 $ 5,978,700 <br />Grass hay 3,510 2.0 tons $ 150 $ 1,579,700 <br />Barley 868 93.5 lbs $ 2.85 $ 231,300 <br />Sunflowers 990 1,8001bs $ 0.18 $ 320,760 <br />TOTAL 32,750 $17,323,640 <br />Statistics from Colorado ~ricultural Statistics. 2005, Colorado Department ofAgriculture and from Rod Baumgartner, <br />Henrylyn Irrigation District Manager. <br />Based on the average crop yields per acre in the service are, the value of the crops grown on land <br />irrigated by HID is in excess of $17,000,000. <br />The Denver-Hudson Canal, which delivers water out of Horsecreek and Prospect, is over 50 miles <br />in length. As such, there are many soils and soil types found along the system. The <br />GENERALIZED SOIL MAP from Soil Survey of Weld County, Colorado, United States <br />Deparhnent of Agriculture, indicates the soils in the services area are of three major units; the Weld- <br />Colby, the Olney-Kim-Otero, and the Nunn-Haverson. <br />The Weld-Colby soils are deep, nearly level to moderately sloping, well drained loams formed in <br />calcareous eolian deposits. <br />The Olney-Kim-Otero soils are deep, nearly level to moderately sloping, well drained sandy loams <br />and loams formed in mixed alluvium and eolian deposits. <br />Horsecreek & Prospect Reservoirs - 06.014 <br />Henrylyn Irrigation District Page 2 <br />